A review of A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke by James Horn. Hobson Woodward on his book A Brave Vessel: The True Tale of the Castaways Who Rescued Jamestown and Inspired Shakespeare’s The Tempest. The charge is murder: The Boston Massacre wasn’t what you might think; a historian argues for a new interpretation of an iconic American event. A review of Betsy Ross and the Making of America by Marla R. Miller (and more). How Haiti saved America: Two centuries ago, a glittering Caribbean Island helped finance the Revolution. Founding Amateurs: Even before 1776, Jefferson, Washington and the other framers were pretty experienced politicians. A review of Hamilton’s Curse: How Jefferson’s Archenemy Betrayed the American Revolution — and What It Means for Americans Today by Thomas DiLorenzo. Sean Wilentz reviews Tocqueville's Discovery of America by Leo Damrosch (and more and more and more and more and more and more). David Wallace-Wells on the trouble with Tocqueville. T. J. Jackson Lears reviews Awaiting the Heavenly Country: The Civil War and America’s Culture of Death by Mark Schantz and This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust. A review of Craig Warren's Scars to Prove It: The Civil War Soldier and American Fiction. While practicing law in Springfield, Illinois, Abraham Lincoln defended a man in a highly unusual case and later recounted the mystery as a short story. Tony Perrottet on the modern questioning of Lincoln's sexuality. A review of U.S. Grant: American Hero, American Myth by Joan Waugh. A review of The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn By Nathaniel Philbrick (and more and more and more and more and more).
